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The Perfect Run

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

S+97/100
Ryan "Quicksave" Romano is an eccentric adventurer with a strange power: he can create a save-point in time and redo his life whenever he dies. Arriving in New Rome, the glitzy capital of sin of a rebuilding Europe, he finds the city torn between mega-corporations, sponsored heroes, superpowered criminals, and true monsters. It's a time of chaos, where potions can grant the power to rule the world and dangers lurk everywhere. Ryan only sees different routes — and from Hero to Villain, he has to try them all. Only then will he achieve his perfect ending, no matter how many loops it takes.
pf8.0· 5Royal Road4.80· 8.6KGoodreads4.42· 6.1K
Anti-heroComedyMysteryOverpowered MCSci-fiSuperpowers+2

The Primal Hunter

Zogarth

S+97/100
On just another normal Monday, the world changed. The universe reached a threshold humanity didn't even know existed, and it was time to finally be integrated into the vast multiverse — a place where power is the only thing anyone can truly rely on. Jake, a seemingly average office worker, finds himself thrust into a tutorial filled with dangers and opportunities. In a world that should breed fear and concern, an environment that makes his fellow coworkers falter, Jake instead finds himself thriving. Perhaps Jake was born for this kind of world.
pf4.5· 2Royal Road4.65· 13.2KGoodreads4.49· 23.7K
AlchemyAnti-heroBase BuildingDungeon CrawlingGameLitLitRPG+6

Villains' Code

Drew Hayes

S+95/100
Gifted with metahuman powers in a world full of capes and villains, Tori Rivas kept away from the limelight, preferring to work as a thief in the shadows. When she is captured trying to rob a vault belonging to a secret guild of villains, she is offered a hard choice: prove she has what it takes to join them, or be eliminated. Apprenticied to one of the world's most powerful and supposedly dead villains, Tori is thrust into a world where the lines dividing superheroes and criminals are far more complex than they seem. On top of the peril from her own teacher, there are capes, fellow apprentices, and a civilian cover to maintain. Most dangerous of all are those who loathe the guild's very existence — old grudges run deep, and some are willing to go to any length to see the guild turned to ash, along with each one of its members.
pf7.0· 1Goodreads4.53· 7.5K
Anti-heroCompetent MCMysterySuperpowersUrban FantasyWeak to Strong

A Journey of Black and Red

Mecanimus

S+95/100
A conversation with a handsome stranger leaves Ariane chained in a cellar with a strange affliction. She soon discovers that the darkness of the nineteenth-century Deep South hides many dangers: mages, wolf shifters, and the humans who hunt them all play a risky game — all under the amused gaze of the apex predators of the supernatural world, vampires. It takes much to survive in this merciless world, but Ariane will not be deterred. The southern belle has a bite, and she is willing to learn and grow in this hostile new world, using guile, charm, and those intriguing new instincts that make blood so delectable.
Royal Road4.78· 5.3KGoodreads4.52· 1.1K
Anti-heroGrimdarkUrban FantasyVillain MCWeak to Strong

Hell Difficulty Tutorial

Cerim

S+93/100
Nathaniel's bus ride was supposed to be just another boring commute. Instead, he, 23 fellow passengers, and a corgi named Biscuit find themselves trapped in a "Hell Difficulty" tutorial, battling monsters and leveling up to survive. Easy, Normal, and Hard difficulty have their challenges—but Hell is where you have to be a little out of your mind. With a terrifying talent for mana manipulation, Nathaniel invests every stat point into mana. Attribute imbalance be damned: it will either kill him before the monsters can, or turn him into one of the most powerful beings in the system.
pf8.5· 2Royal Road4.60· 5.2KGoodreads4.48· 5.5K
Anti-heroGameLitIsekaiLitRPGOverpowered MCPost-apocalyptic+2

Super Minion

Gogglesbear

S+93/100
Fortress City has super villains who maintain evil lairs and create super weapons. But when a bioweapon is granted superpowers of its own, Fortress City faces an entirely new kind of threat: the Super Minion.
Royal Road4.81· 5.8KGoodreads4.49· 160
Anti-heroNon-human MCSci-fiSuperpowersUrban FantasyVillain MC

Arise

Jez Cajiao

S+93/100
Steve is ex-military, ex-enforcer, and ex-human — a one-man nanite-fuelled nightmare who stole a hundred thousand from some very bad people and is trying to lie low on a Greek island. When he saves a pair of drowning girls and goes viral, lying low becomes impossible. He tells himself he is cleaning up his act, making up for the things he has done. But even he admits it is mostly a justification: he is a very bad man with horrifying abilities, and hunting the creatures of the night suits him just fine.
Goodreads4.55· 2.1K
Anti-heroNon-human MCSci-fiSuperpowersUrban Fantasy

Book of the Dead

RinoZ

S+93/100
With one touch of the stone, Tyron receives his Class and his life changes forever. In an instant his bright and promising future as the scion of two powerful Slayers is torn apart and he must make a decision: allow his Class to be purged from his soul, or cling to it, abandon all that he knows, and rise to power.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.70· 3.7KGoodreads4.50· 2.7K
Anti-heroClass SystemGrimdarkHorrorLitRPGSecondary World+2

Pale Lights

ErraticErrata

S+92/100
Tristan Abrascal is a thief scraping by under the perpetual twilight of Vesper's greatest city. Quick wit and a contract with a capricious goddess have kept him one step ahead — until a single misstep burns every bridge he has left. His only way out doubles as a chance to settle scores with the infanzones, the nobles he has lived under his whole life. Angharad Tredegar has fled halfway across the world after her family was butchered by a ruthless enemy. Assassins still follow, and the only protection she can find comes at a steep cost. Both paths converge on the Watch — and on the deadly trials of the isle known as the Dominion of Lost Things, where many go and few return. The second book, Good Treasons, follows the four survivors as they enroll at the infamous Scholomance, only to find that none are beyond the reach of their pasts.
Royal Road4.82· 1.9KGoodreads4.63· 161
Anti-heroGrimdarkHorrorMysterySecondary World

Sublight Drive (Star Wars)

mirrth

S+91/100
It is twenty-two years before the Battle of Yavin, and the galaxy is at war. Born on an unremarkable planet in the Inner Rim, Rain never gave much thought to his future — peaceful living didn't seem hard to find in a vast galaxy. Two decades later, armies are marshaled and warships fill the stars. Armed with foreknowledge of nine movies, Rain is forced onto the losing side of a galactic conflict, navigating a sprawling, multi-perspective war story far removed from a simple self-insert adventure.
Royal Road4.80· 3.1K
Anti-heroGenius MCMilitaryReincarnationSci-fi

Rock falls, everyone dies

zechamp

S+91/100
By a stroke of fate, a stone gains sentience and sets out on a grand quest to touch grass. Unfortunately, the system forgot to change its stats from metric values to the appropriate Str/Int/Dex values. Things escalate. Fast. Features cultivation, jade beauties, and numbers going up — ridiculously up, all of them — courtesy of arguably the most balanced protagonist of all time.
Royal Road4.74· 5.2KGoodreads4.00· 91
Anti-heroComedyCultivationLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+4

Paranoid Mage

InadvisablyCompelled

S+91/100
Callum had seen things all his life — monsters and beasts living among people — but he learned very early not to admit such things. It turns out the supernatural is real, but at thirty Callum has no desire to be part of that secret. Not that he has a choice when it turns out he is a mage, albeit one that hasn't cast any spells in all his life. The powers that be insist on requirements, duties, and education. To hell with that. An urban fantasy that goes rather sideways from the normal genre fairly quickly, following Callum as he goes from fugitive to renegade to open conflict with the forces that govern the supernatural world.
pf7.0· 1Royal Road4.65· 6.2KGoodreads4.32· 3.3K
Anti-heroCompetent MCHard MagicLoner MCOlder MCUrban Fantasy

Vainqueur the Dragon

Maxime J. Durand (Void Herald)

S+91/100
Vainqueur Knightsbane is your average dragon: a giant, fire-breathing lizard who loves to nap on his golden hoard, kidnap princesses for fun, and make the lives of adventurers miserable. His only pleasure in life is watching his treasure grow, one coin at a time. So when a would-be thief turned unwilling minion tells him about "classes," "levels," and "quests," Vainqueur wonders if maybe, just maybe, he should consider a career change. After all, why bother hunting monsters for free when you can get paid for it?
pf3.0· 1Royal Road4.71· 5.5KGoodreads4.27· 2.1K
Anti-heroClass SystemComedyLitRPGNon-human MCOverpowered MC+2

Reborn as a Demonic Tree

XKarnation

S+90/100
Ashlock woke in the courtyard of a demonic sect — as a tree. A tree that eats people. And one that grows stronger over time through a daily sign-in system and cultivation. A strange new life, but perhaps not the worst one in a world where humans chase immortality through the art of cultivation. Every day he grows stronger, gaining powerful skills, mutations, summons, and items in exchange for credits earned from eating flesh and watching the seasons pass. But his peaceful, man-eating existence can only go unnoticed for so long. His Qi-rich bark makes him a target, tensions in the demonic sect are rising, and a Beast Tide looms on the horizon. Ashlock's only option is to grow faster and stronger than any tree in the history of the nine realms.
pf3.0· 1Royal Road4.52· 5.7KGoodreads4.46· 2.5K
Anti-heroBase BuildingCozyCultivationLitRPGNon-human MC+6

Cyber Dreams

PlumParrot

S+90/100
In the near future, corporations rule society and treat their citizens like products and tools. People live to work and work to live — but not everyone. Some prosper on the fringe, some thrive as thorns in the paws of the corporate lions. Juliet just wants to get a ride home from her double shift at the scrapyard when something bizarre and horrifying happens, throwing her into the crosshairs of Western Bio Dynamics, a mega-corporation that would just as soon dissect a person as interview them. She didn't ask for the stolen, illegal tech that falls into her hands — but she accepted it. Now she needs to find a way to skip town and hide from WBD until she figures out a plan. She has to learn to live in the shadows, work outside the corporate system, and deal with the sundry characters — honorable and nefarious — inhabiting that world. From synthetic bounty hunters to double-crossing operators, Juliet will face many challenges as she works to improve herself physically, mentally, and in reputation.
Royal Road4.70· 1.9KGoodreads4.52· 1.6K
Anti-heroCozyGameLitLitRPGOverpowered MCSci-fi+2

The Vampire Vincent

Benjamin Kerei

S+90/100
Becoming a knockoff Dracula in tight leather pants was never part of Vincent's plans. Neither was being summoned to another world by a cult of vampire wannabes. But both happened. Now Vincent is left picking up the tattered pieces of his humanity as he tries to grow strong enough to keep his family safe. There is a world filled with nightmares and the looming threat of losing his soul standing between him and his goal. A good man is going to war.
Goodreads4.50· 3.6K
Anti-heroGrimdarkIsekaiNon-human MCTransmigrationWeak to Strong

Towerbound

Samson Chui

S+90/100
Ren Varrow was never the hero type — a quiet alchemist who kept his head low while others chased glory. But when a top guild lured him into a lethal dungeon and stabbed him in the back, his story should have ended. Instead, it rewound. Thrown back to Day One, before the Tower rose and before the betrayals, Ren knows what's coming: secret quests, hidden mechanics, and a ticking clock that ends with Earth's destruction. Armed with future knowledge, he's ready to rewrite everything — from building a guild out of nobodies to crafting mythic-grade potions to surviving a hundred deadly floors.
Goodreads4.52· 1.7K
AlchemyAnti-heroBase BuildingCraftingLitRPGRegression+1

Everybody Loves Large Chests

Exterminatus

S89/100
Large chests are said to encompass all manner of hopes and dreams. Men covet them. Women envy them. But one fact holds true — everyone wants to get their hands on some big ones. The same holds true for one intrepid adventurer, a strapping young lad named Himmel. Armed with his grandfather's trusty longsword and the dream of being the strongest, he sets out on the journey of a lifetime — reaching Level 5 in the dungeon called the "newbie zone" to earn the right to become a full-fledged adventurer. His plans get hopelessly derailed, however, when his adolescent mind beholds an exposed chest for the very first time. A fateful meeting that will lead his life in a direction he never dreamed of.
Royal Road4.55· 6.9KGoodreads4.27· 6.8K
Anti-heroComedyDungeon CrawlingGoreHaremLitRPG+7

The Dark Profit Saga

J. Zachary Pike

S89/100
On Arth — a world much like ours but with more magic and fewer vowels — adventuring is a fully commercialized industry. Monster hoards are securitized and sold off before the Heroes' Guild even kills the beasts. The Shadowkin (orcs, goblins, kobolds and their ilk) must carry NPC paperwork to avoid being legally looted and killed. When washed-up dwarven ex-hero Gorm Ingerson defends an undocumented goblin, he's recruited by a prophet of the mad goddess for a suicidal quest — one that powerful corporations and governments are watching very closely.
Goodreads4.33· 10.8K
Anti-heroComedyCompetent MCSatireSecondary WorldSoft Magic

The Elf Who Would Become A Dragon

ljamberfantasy

S89/100
Saphienne lived the idyllic life of an elf in the woodlands — eternal joy her birthright, the supremacy of elven magic her inheritance. But she was a profoundly gifted child, and gifted children see things others prefer to ignore. Once she witnessed the hidden suffering beneath the paradise, she could not look away. Her pursuit of a wizarding apprenticeship set her against both magical and moral challenges. Saphienne grew into a formidable woman — and when the flames subsided, the elves struck her name from history. A heartwarming and heartbreaking fantasy about rejection and belonging, power and consequence, and the cost of being oneself.
pf9.5· 2Royal Road4.79· 1.6K
Anti-heroCozyGenius MCLGBTQ+Non-human MCOverpowered MC+2